Railway-rail joint.



No. 744,553. PATENTED NOV. 17, 1903.

J. R. HUBBARD. RAILWAY RAIL JOINT.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 2.1902. R0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented November 17, 1903.

JOSEPH R. HUBBARD, OF TRIMBLE, MISSOURI.

RAILWAY-RAIL JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,553,.dated. November 17, 1903.

I Application filed September 2, 1902. Serial No. 121,855- (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. HUBBARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Trimble, in the county of Clinton and State of Missouri, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Railway-RailJoints, of which the following is'a specification.

My invention relates to an improvedrailjoint construction for railroads, the object of which is to prevent the shock and wear caused by the passage of car-wheelsthereover. To this end I substitute for the usual square-ended and butt-jointed rail a rail having its ends cut obliquely, as hereinafter described.

Referring now to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan viewof the ends of the rails in contact. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the separated ends of two rails cut in a modified manner. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 2.

As shown most clearly in Fig. 2, the ends of the webs and heads ofthe rails are cut 0% obliquely in the same plane, and the ends of the bases are cut off obliquely in a plane which intersects the aforesaid plane at angles of thirty and sixty degrees. The advantage of thus tapering and pointing theends of the rails is that when a car-wheel or locomotive- Wheel passes over the joint (shown in Fig. 1) the pressure of the wheel upon the end of one rail diminishes gradually instead of suddenly, as with butt-ended rails, and at the same time the pressure of the wheel upon the adjacent end of the next rail increases gradually instead of suddenly, and, moreover, there need be no gap or space between the ends of the rails, and hence there can be no relative motion between them, which motion it is impossible to entirely prevent in square-ended rails, owing to the blows delivered upon the rail-joints by the wheels. The points at the ends of the heads of the rails should be roundedofi, substantially as shown so that the pointed ends will not be thin orsharp enough to be .bent or broken in transportation 'or i the track-building operation.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A railway-rail having the ends of its head and web cut off obliquely, and having the endsof its base cut off obliquely but in planes intersecting those of the ends of the head and web, substantially as described.

2. A railway-rail having each end of its head and web tapering to a point, and having each end of its basetapering to a point,

the planes of the ends of the head and web' intersecting the planes of the ends of the base,

substantially as described. 

